Eagle Consus W-Series, User Manual

Page 1: ...ET CSWESU2 BK Eagle Consus W Series SATA to USB2 0 eSATA External Storage System User Manual www eagle techusa com...

Page 2: ...ing the External Hard Drive Connecting the Cables 09 Powering Up the Hard Drive 10 4 Partition Format the Hard Drive Windows 11 Mac OS v 10 2 14 5 Disconnecting the Hard Drive Windows 17 Mac 18 6 Trou...

Page 3: ...t EAGLE CONSUS product information and news visit our Web Site at www eagle techusa com Package Contents Eagle Consus W Series SATA to USB2 0 eSATA External Storage System USB 2 0 cable eSATA eSATA ca...

Page 4: ...dows Go to the Start menu and select Windows updates For more information regarding updating your system visit windowsupdate microsoft com Macintosh Go to the Apple menu and select Software Update For...

Page 5: ...please skip this chapter and proceed to Chapter 3 Connecting the Drive EAGLE CONSUS W SERIES Front and Rear View Power Switch Turns the W SERIES on off Hard Drive access light Indicates hard drive act...

Page 6: ...5 Hard Drive Installation 1 Remove 2 screws from the rear 2 Unplug D1A Red Black cable HDD Access LED Connector and unplug D2A Blue Black cable Power LED Connector from controller board...

Page 7: ...6 3 Pull out the Disk Mounting Tray and slice in the SATA hard drive to the SATA connector on the controller board 4 Tighten up Hard Drives with 4 screws...

Page 8: ...7 5 Plug in the Red Black Cable HDD Access LED Connector to D1A and Blue Black Cable Power LED Connector to D2A on the controller board 6 Slide the Disk Mounting Tray into the Enclosure...

Page 9: ...8 7 Put the bezel back and tighten up with 2 screws at the rear 8 External Hard Drive Installation Process Completed...

Page 10: ...interface functioning at the same time in one PC or multiple PC This may cause damage of the device or hard drive Connecting the Cables 1 Connect the AC adapter cord to the DC power supply socket at t...

Page 11: ...activate Hardware Wizard then Click Next 3 Select Search for the Best Driver for your Device Click Next to continue 4 Insert the CD Driver in your CD ROM then Browse the CD Driver Contain and chose W...

Page 12: ...trative Tools and then double click the Computer Management 2 Click the Disk Management under Storage Your new Hard Drive should have the right capacity shown E g figure above Disk 1 is showing approx...

Page 13: ...On the next page choose your partition size then click Next 5 After that please assign a drive letter for the new Hard Drive and go to Next 6 To format a Hard Drive Choose the NTFS as File System Leav...

Page 14: ...a name in Volume label Check the Perform a quick format to reduce format time Click Next 7 Confirm your setting and click Finish 8 It would show the status as Formatting 9 When the status change to He...

Page 15: ...nd ready to use Mac OS X Note If the warning does not show up start at step 2 1 A warning window will pop up for new and unformatted hard drive Click Initialize Skip Step 2 and continue at Step 3 2 Cl...

Page 16: ...xtended 3 refer to Figure 1 at page 16 Choose the number of partition you want by clicking on the scroll bar 4 Name the new hard drive 5 Choose the Format 6 refer to Figure 2 at page 16 Define the Siz...

Page 17: ...tion for you hard drive Click OK Figure 2 6 Format Choose the format for your hard drive 4 After the partitioning is done an icon with the Name you assigned should appear on your Desktop Just double c...

Page 18: ...ect USB Mass Storage Device from the list and click Stop 3 The following window is displayed Select the drive to be disconnected and click OK Important If other USB devices such as a portable flash dr...

Page 19: ...mputer Mac 1 Find the Removable Disk icon associated with drive you to disconnect and drag it to the Trash icon on your desktop it would turn to Eject icon 2 After the disk icon disappears from the de...

Page 20: ...is built in the motherboard be sure to install the appropriate chipset support for your motherboard Refer to your motherboard or system manual for more information Q What happens when a USB 2 0 device...

Page 21: ...ive The same problem might occur if the hard drive is not formatted to the recognizable format of the operating system Reformatting the hard drive will normally fix this issue See Formatting the Drive...

Page 22: ...being accessed from the outside This firewall feature is enabled by default when you install Service Pack 2 and it can block transfers from to the external drive This normally happens on the 1394 port...

Page 23: ...from the USB or 1394 port That will open the USB 1394 ports Be sure to pay close attention to what you are allowing through your firewall you may not want to allow some programs access to your compute...

Page 24: ...nt things depending on the context in which it is used Obviously this can and often does result in confusion especially in respect to hard disk size measurements where both measurements are often used...

Page 25: ...ove space shown is for reference purpose only Please check with hard drive manufacturer for more details on drive space Q My Hard Drive is showing 2 drives which are 191GB one is 45GB respectively but...

Page 26: ...ent off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures 1 Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna 2 Increase the separation between the equ...

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Page 28: ...including but not limited to accidental consequential or special damages or any financial loss lost profits or expenses or lost data arising out of or in connection with the purchase use or performanc...

Page 29: ...tion or help during installation or normal use of this product visit out product support Web site at www eagle techusa com and choose from these topics Support Obtain warranty information warranty sta...

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